Luke 4:40

δύνοντος δὲ τοῦ ἡλίου. Comp. Matthew 8:16, ὀψίας δὲ γενομένης; Mark 1:32, ὅτε ἔδυ ὁ ἥλιος. St Matthew and St Mark agree most closely in details, St Mark and St Luke in the order of the narrative. The form δύνω is Ionic and poetic, and it is found here alone in the N. T. Sunset ended the Sabbath, and thus enabled Jews, without infringing on the many minute ‘abhoth’ and ‘toldoth’—i.e. primary and subordinate rules of sabbatic strictness—to carry their sick on beds and pallets. (John 5:11-12; see Life of Christ, I. 433.) This twilight scene of Jesus moving about with word and touch of healing among the sick and suffering, the raving and tortured crowd (Matthew 4:24), is one of the most striking in the Gospels, and St Matthew quotes it as a fulfilment of Isaiah 53:4.